LILO (bootloader)

LILO
Developer(s)Werner Almesberger (1992–1998), John Coffman (1999–2007), Joachim Wiedorn (since 2010)
Initial releaseJune 29, 1992 (1992-06-29)
Final release
24.2 / November 22, 2015 (2015-11-22)
Repository
TypeBootloader
LicenseBSD-3-Clause
Websitewww.joonet.de/lilo/

LILO (Linux Loader) is a bootloader for Linux and was the default boot loader for most Linux distributions . Unlike loadlin, it allowed booting Linux without having DOS on the computer. As of 2009, most distributions have switched to GRUB as the default boot loader. Further development of LILO was discontinued in December 2015 along with a request by Joachim Wiedorn for potential developers.